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April 2
1513 - Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon landed in present-day Florida.
1792 - Congress authorized the first U.S. Mint, to be located in Philadelphia.
1865 - Confederate President Jefferson Davis and most of his cabinet fled the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia in the face of advancing Union forces.
1870 - Victoria Claflin Woodhull announced her candidacy for the presidency of the United States.
1912 - The just-completed RMS Titanic left Belfast to begin its sea trials eight days before the start of its ill-fated maiden voyage.
1917 - President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress for a declaration of war against Germany, saying "The world must be made safe for democracy." (Congress declared war four days later.)
1932 - Charles Lindbergh paid a $50,000 ransom for the return of his kidnapped son.
1982 - Several thousand troops from Argentina seized the disputed Falkland Islands, located in the South Atlantic, from Britain. (Britain seized the islands back the following June.)
1986 - Four American passengers, including an 8-month-old girl, her mother and her grandmother, were killed when a terrorist bomb exploded aboard a TWA jetliner en route from Rome to Athens, Greece; the remaining 110 passengers survived.
1992 - Mob boss John Gotti was convicted in New York of murder and racketeering; he was later sentenced to life and later died while in prison.
2002 - Israel seized control of Bethlehem; Palestinian gunmen forced their way into the Church of the Nativity, the traditional birthplace of Jesus, where they began a 39-day standoff.
2003 - During the Iraq War, American forces fought their way to within sight of the Baghdad skyline.
2005 - Pope John Paul II died in his Vatican apartment at age 84.
2007 - In its first case on climate change, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency, ruled 5-4 that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases were air pollutants under the Clean Air Act.
2012 - A gunman killed seven people at Oikos University, a Christian school in Oakland, California. (The shooter, One Goh, died in 2019 while serving a life prison sentence.)
2013 - North Korea said it would restart its long-shuttered plutonium reactor and increase production of nuclear weapons material in what outsiders saw as its latest attempt to extract U.S. concessions by raising fears of war.
2018 - Anti-apartheid activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, who’d been married for nearly 38 years to Nelson Mandela, died in a Johannesburg hospital at age 81.
2020 - The number of confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide passed the 1 million mark, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.
Birthdays
22 - Emma Myers (actress)
25 - Sophie Reynolds (actress)
28 - Zach Bryan (singer)
31 - Aaron Kelly (singer)
36 - Jesse Plemons (actor)
38 - Drew Van Acker (actor)
38 - Chris Janson (singer)
43 - Bethany Joy Lenz (actress)
46 - Jaime Ray Newman (actress)
47 - Michael Fassbender (actor)
49 - Adam Rodriguez (actor)
49 - Pedro Pascal (actor)
49 - Jill King (singer)
51 - Roselyn Sanchez (actress)
60 - Jana Marie Hupp (actress)
62 - Clark Gregg (actor)
62 - Billy Dean (singer)
63 - Christopher Meloni (actor)
75 - Pamela Reed (actress)
77 - Sam Anderson (actor)
77 - Emmylou Harris (singer)
79 - Linda Hunt (actress)
84 - Penelope Keith (actress)
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Today in Sports History - April 2
1980 - Wayne Gretzky became the youngest player in NHL history to score 50 goals in a season at age 19 years, 2 months old.
1984 - Georgetown defeats Houston 84-75 to win the NCAA Tournament; Georgetown coach John Thompson became the first African American coach to win an NCAA Division I championship.
1985 - The NCAA Rules Committee adopted the 45-second shot clock for men's basketball to begin in the 1986 season.
1986 - The NCAA Rules Committee adopted the 3-point shot, beginning with the 1986-87 season, setting the distance at 19 feet, 9 inches, compared the 21-foot line in the NBA.
1986 - Paul Coffey (Edmonton Oilers) scored his 47th and 48th goals of the season. He broke Bobby Orr's NHL record for most goals by a defenseman. Orr had scored 46 goals in 1974-75.
1989 - Tennessee defeats Auburn 76-60 to win the NCAA Women's Tournament.
1990 - UNLV defeats Duke 103-73 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1995 - Connecticut defeats Tennessee 70-64 to win the NCAA Women's Tournament.
1995 - After a work stoppage lasting nearly eight months, baseball owners accepted the players’ union offer to play without a contract.
1996 - Detroit Tigers slugger Cecil Fielder steals his first career base in his 1,097th career game, marking the longest duration in MLB history without a stolen base.
1996 - The Vancouver Grizzlies defeat the Minnesota Timberwolves to snap an NBA record 23-game losing streak.
2000 - Connecticut defeats Tennessee 71-52 to win the NCAA Women's Tournament.
2001 - Duke defeats Arizona 82-72 to win the NCAA Tournament.
2001 - Roger Clemens of the New York Yankees becomes the American League's all-time strikeouts leader with 3,509, breaking Walter Johnson's mark.
2003 - Alex Rodriguez (Texas Rangers) became the youngest player to hit 300 homeruns. He beat Jimmie Foxx's record by 79 days.
2007 - Florida defeats Ohio State 84-75 to win the NCAA Tournament.
2010 - Kobe Bryant signs a record three-year contract extension with the Los Angeles Lakers worth $87 million.
2012 - Kentucky defeats Kansas 67-59 to win the NCAA Tournament.
2017 - South Carolina defeated Mississippi State 67-55 to win the NCAA Women's Tournament.
2018 - Villanova defeats Michigan 79-62 to win the NCAA Tournament.
2019 - Oklahoma City Thunder guard Russell Westbrook becomes the second player in NBA history to have 20+ points, rebounds and assists in a game, recording 20-20-21 in a 119-103 win over the Los Angeles Lakers.
2023 - LSU defeats Iowa 102-85 to win the NCAA Women's Tournament.
1513 - Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon landed in present-day Florida.
1792 - Congress authorized the first U.S. Mint, to be located in Philadelphia.
1865 - Confederate President Jefferson Davis and most of his cabinet fled the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia in the face of advancing Union forces.
1870 - Victoria Claflin Woodhull announced her candidacy for the presidency of the United States.
1912 - The just-completed RMS Titanic left Belfast to begin its sea trials eight days before the start of its ill-fated maiden voyage.
1917 - President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress for a declaration of war against Germany, saying "The world must be made safe for democracy." (Congress declared war four days later.)
1932 - Charles Lindbergh paid a $50,000 ransom for the return of his kidnapped son.
1982 - Several thousand troops from Argentina seized the disputed Falkland Islands, located in the South Atlantic, from Britain. (Britain seized the islands back the following June.)
1986 - Four American passengers, including an 8-month-old girl, her mother and her grandmother, were killed when a terrorist bomb exploded aboard a TWA jetliner en route from Rome to Athens, Greece; the remaining 110 passengers survived.
1992 - Mob boss John Gotti was convicted in New York of murder and racketeering; he was later sentenced to life and later died while in prison.
2002 - Israel seized control of Bethlehem; Palestinian gunmen forced their way into the Church of the Nativity, the traditional birthplace of Jesus, where they began a 39-day standoff.
2003 - During the Iraq War, American forces fought their way to within sight of the Baghdad skyline.
2005 - Pope John Paul II died in his Vatican apartment at age 84.
2007 - In its first case on climate change, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency, ruled 5-4 that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases were air pollutants under the Clean Air Act.
2012 - A gunman killed seven people at Oikos University, a Christian school in Oakland, California. (The shooter, One Goh, died in 2019 while serving a life prison sentence.)
2013 - North Korea said it would restart its long-shuttered plutonium reactor and increase production of nuclear weapons material in what outsiders saw as its latest attempt to extract U.S. concessions by raising fears of war.
2018 - Anti-apartheid activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, who’d been married for nearly 38 years to Nelson Mandela, died in a Johannesburg hospital at age 81.
2020 - The number of confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide passed the 1 million mark, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.
Birthdays
22 - Emma Myers (actress)
25 - Sophie Reynolds (actress)
28 - Zach Bryan (singer)
31 - Aaron Kelly (singer)
36 - Jesse Plemons (actor)
38 - Drew Van Acker (actor)
38 - Chris Janson (singer)
43 - Bethany Joy Lenz (actress)
46 - Jaime Ray Newman (actress)
47 - Michael Fassbender (actor)
49 - Adam Rodriguez (actor)
49 - Pedro Pascal (actor)
49 - Jill King (singer)
51 - Roselyn Sanchez (actress)
60 - Jana Marie Hupp (actress)
62 - Clark Gregg (actor)
62 - Billy Dean (singer)
63 - Christopher Meloni (actor)
75 - Pamela Reed (actress)
77 - Sam Anderson (actor)
77 - Emmylou Harris (singer)
79 - Linda Hunt (actress)
84 - Penelope Keith (actress)
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Today in Sports History - April 2
1980 - Wayne Gretzky became the youngest player in NHL history to score 50 goals in a season at age 19 years, 2 months old.
1984 - Georgetown defeats Houston 84-75 to win the NCAA Tournament; Georgetown coach John Thompson became the first African American coach to win an NCAA Division I championship.
1985 - The NCAA Rules Committee adopted the 45-second shot clock for men's basketball to begin in the 1986 season.
1986 - The NCAA Rules Committee adopted the 3-point shot, beginning with the 1986-87 season, setting the distance at 19 feet, 9 inches, compared the 21-foot line in the NBA.
1986 - Paul Coffey (Edmonton Oilers) scored his 47th and 48th goals of the season. He broke Bobby Orr's NHL record for most goals by a defenseman. Orr had scored 46 goals in 1974-75.
1989 - Tennessee defeats Auburn 76-60 to win the NCAA Women's Tournament.
1990 - UNLV defeats Duke 103-73 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1995 - Connecticut defeats Tennessee 70-64 to win the NCAA Women's Tournament.
1995 - After a work stoppage lasting nearly eight months, baseball owners accepted the players’ union offer to play without a contract.
1996 - Detroit Tigers slugger Cecil Fielder steals his first career base in his 1,097th career game, marking the longest duration in MLB history without a stolen base.
1996 - The Vancouver Grizzlies defeat the Minnesota Timberwolves to snap an NBA record 23-game losing streak.
2000 - Connecticut defeats Tennessee 71-52 to win the NCAA Women's Tournament.
2001 - Duke defeats Arizona 82-72 to win the NCAA Tournament.
2001 - Roger Clemens of the New York Yankees becomes the American League's all-time strikeouts leader with 3,509, breaking Walter Johnson's mark.
2003 - Alex Rodriguez (Texas Rangers) became the youngest player to hit 300 homeruns. He beat Jimmie Foxx's record by 79 days.
2007 - Florida defeats Ohio State 84-75 to win the NCAA Tournament.
2010 - Kobe Bryant signs a record three-year contract extension with the Los Angeles Lakers worth $87 million.
2012 - Kentucky defeats Kansas 67-59 to win the NCAA Tournament.
2017 - South Carolina defeated Mississippi State 67-55 to win the NCAA Women's Tournament.
2018 - Villanova defeats Michigan 79-62 to win the NCAA Tournament.
2019 - Oklahoma City Thunder guard Russell Westbrook becomes the second player in NBA history to have 20+ points, rebounds and assists in a game, recording 20-20-21 in a 119-103 win over the Los Angeles Lakers.
2023 - LSU defeats Iowa 102-85 to win the NCAA Women's Tournament.